Shingled hard drives

[Eagle21]

Seagate’s first shingled hard drives now shipping: 8TB for just $260
http://www.extremetech.com/computin...led-hard-drives-now-shipping-8tb-for-just-260

This could be an interesting development for hard drives. But I think I'll wait a while to see how reliable they turn out to be.

 

[NYJimbo]

It's just mind boggling that they can keep cramming more and more data onto such tiny devices. I remember when we were approaching 1tb I thought they might have to revisit the larger 5.25 form factor at some point or add more platters, but to see they are packing 8tb into a standard case 3.5 is just incredible.

 

[HFultzjr]

Incredible.

I would just hate to recover or lose 8TB of data.

I'll stick to multiple 'small" ones, until reliability is proven.

Amazing technology though!

Harold

 

[Davena]

Interesting

Eagle21, thank you for the information. When I read breakthroughs like this I feel SO old.

 

[jft135]

I've seen higher than usual failure rates with 3TB and 4TB drives so far so I wonder what bigger drives will be like. I usually don't recommend any more than 1TB for laptops or 2TB for desktops unless the client actually needs that much and I know they're diligent with backups.

On another note, that's disheartening since I finally coughed up the $$$ to upgrade my data recovery workstations so that I can handle the 4TB drives. I guess I might be setting up that SAN sooner than I thought.

What I really wish manufacturers would do is buckle down and improve performance for the $ on traditional HDD's rather than just sheer volume. I ran a recovery on an almost full 2TB drive last week and it took a little over a day and a half for me to dump all that data to the new drive. I can't imagine trying to do an 8TB transfer with today's read/write speeds.

 

[joydivision]

I can't see much domestic demand for that much storage, and those that do will have the sense to know not to store it all on one drive.

 

[lcoughey]

I get clients who freak when I tell them that it will cost $1800 for a head change on a 4TB drive and I'm not sure our posted price of $2200 will be enough. Let's just hope that they invest in a good backup system.

 

[jft135]

I can't see much domestic demand for that much storage, and those that do will have the sense to know not to store it all on one drive.

My DVD collection is pushing 3TB (I use this as backup and refuse to compress) and I know people that could easily get up to 8TB. I would hope that anyone with that much data would at least mirror it though.

 

[nlinecomputers]

8TB? Just how much porn can one person have on a laptop? LOL.

 

[seedubya]

My DVD collection is pushing 3TB (I use this as backup and refuse to compress) and I know people that could easily get up to 8TB. I would hope that anyone with that much data would at least mirror it though.

I sold 2 x 48 TB NASes to a private client earlier this year for his digital video collection. He has about 20TB at the moment but he's constantly buying BluRays.

 

[tarik]

I can see how that can add up. I like my blu Rays and have been collecting steel books as well now. Been ripping my blu Rays. I'm not even half way and already got about 5tb uncompressed. Just in the process on ripping them all and setting up s plex server. It soon adds up with hd media.

 

[gikstar]

I have an older Qnap device with 8 - 2Tb drives running Raid 5 where I store my movies & TV... (found on Craigslist for $600)
Not looking forward to upgrading the drives but I know it will need to happen someday

 

[DataMedics]

Based on the reliability of Seagates 2-4 Tb models, these will be absolute crap. Run away from Seagate! I'd be worried about data corruption every time the drive loses power while re-writing data it had to erase during the last write cycle.

I think the move by other companies like HGST to make platters thinner and fill with helium will work better than the shingling concept.

I can't wait to start getting drives in for recovery that just need to be re-filled with helium LOL!

 

[frederick]

I like the idea behind the SMR tech, as it says for archival purposes. I haven't been happy Seagate drives for awhile now, so I guess we will see how the reviews stack up for them. I don't think I'd use these for movies though. Maybe full file server backups, like a local backup or something. And the recovery of these might be a challenge.

 

[Galdorf]

University of York researchers are using heat to write data at rates never heard of i hope storage devices get faster would really like to see some huge breakthroughs in my lifetime.
http://phys.org/news/2012-02-physicists-magnetic-breakthrough.html